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vi PREFACE.
interest of the Davis Bequest, amounting to £58 11*. lOd.;
and it is with peculiar pleasure that I have to mention another
grant of J100 from the British Association for the Advance­
ment of Science towards the expenses of the volume for 1871.
I must also record the great personal obligation I am under to
my friend Mr. GEORGE ROBERT CROTCH, late Assistant-Libra­
rian to the University of Cambridge, who has rendered this
volume very important assistance by acting as Sub-Editor, and
to that end most kindly postponed a contempla. d voyage round
the world.
Magdalene ('allege, Cambridge,
1'0 October, 1871.
A. N.
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b>- uddn-s-etl solely to "THK Kmrou of the Zoological Record, care of Mr.
Van Vo,.r-t, 1 Paternoster li„w, London.'' It is earnestly requested that in
the case of separately-printed copies of papers so forwarded the original
pagination be indicated.